http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070507/microsoft-novdell/ by John Paczkowski Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:18:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070507/microsoft-novdell/comment-page-1/#comment-60 David Lord Wed, 09 May 2007 21:08:33 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070507/microsoft-novdell/#comment-60 Perhaps obvious bias seeing as I work at Dell but feel it's important to point out the real focus here, whether it is Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Novell Suse Linux or Microsoft that Dell is offering - it is about customer choice. Joining the Microsoft/Novell alliance simply gives enterprise customers who want increased interoperability and IP assurance in their heterogeneous data center environments a targeted solution from Dell. This in no way undermines our very strong partnership with Red Hat - if an enterprise customer wants Red Hat support, Dell offers great solutions there as well (same with Microsoft Windows Server, etc.) In the same vein, this doesn't change anything around our Ubuntu offering on desktops and notebooks for consumers. Choose your OS - Novell, Microsoft, Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc or application - Oracle, VMware, SAP, etc and Dell can provide an outstanding solution to meet a customer need. In the end, Dell's joining the MSFT/Novell alliance as with all our other Linux support efforts, all leads to two very positive outcomes for the Linux community- 1) driving greater awareness and possible adoption of Linux overall, and 2) choice for customers in the OS they deploy. Perhaps obvious bias seeing as I work at Dell but feel it’s important to point out the real focus here, whether it is Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Novell Suse Linux or Microsoft that Dell is offering – it is about customer choice. Joining the Microsoft/Novell alliance simply gives enterprise customers who want increased interoperability and IP assurance in their heterogeneous data center environments a targeted solution from Dell. This in no way undermines our very strong partnership with Red Hat – if an enterprise customer wants Red Hat support, Dell offers great solutions there as well (same with Microsoft Windows Server, etc.) In the same vein, this doesn’t change anything around our Ubuntu offering on desktops and notebooks for consumers. Choose your OS – Novell, Microsoft, Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc or application – Oracle, VMware, SAP, etc and Dell can provide an outstanding solution to meet a customer need. In the end, Dell’s joining the MSFT/Novell alliance as with all our other Linux support efforts, all leads to two very positive outcomes for the Linux community- 1) driving greater awareness and possible adoption of Linux overall, and 2) choice for customers in the OS they deploy.

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